Making a Website

So you want to make a website. Well here is a quick tutorial on making a website. And the best part about it is you don't need any spacial tools. Just a text editor and a web browser. Both should come with almost any operating system. The first thing you should do is open up your text editor. Then type the following into it.

<html>
<head>
<title>Hello</title>
</head>

<body>
hello world
</body>
</html>

Then save it as index.html. Next you would find the location that you saved it at, and double click on it. Your web browser should open up with the words hello world on it. Congratulation you just made your first web page.

But that is just half the battle. The next half is understanding how you did it. HTML is like algebra in the sense that what ever you do to one side you must do to the other side. Also you can put tags inside of each other, like so <head><title></title></head> here the title tags are inside of the head tags. But you will never do something like so <head><title></head></title> this is always wrong.

Next what you'll also notice there are 2 different types of tags. There are tags with / and without /. The reason for this is the computer has to know which one is the beginning tag and which one is the ending tag.

Well now you have basic idea how to build the most simple web site. Even though it wont validate in an http://validator.3c.org (external link)

. Next you'll learn how to make it validate.